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13:02, 26 February 2004

Action devoted to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens takes place in Kazan

The Center for Peacekeeping and Human Rights Actions jointly with the All-Tatar Public Center arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

20:30, 25 February 2004

Meeting in Petersburg in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechen people

Liberal human rights defenders, former political prisoners, about twenty anarchists and Workers' Democracy members participated in the action.

19:13, 25 February 2004

Terry Davis: "I arrived in Karabakh not as a mediator"

PACE rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Terry Davis met with the leaders of Nagorny Karabakh on February 23.

19:05, 25 February 2004

Films of international Chechnya Film Festival shown in Ryazan

In Ryazan on February 23, the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people, the Sasovo human rights center Choice of Conscience and the Human Rights School attached to Ryazan's Memorial Society arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

18:14, 25 February 2004

Attack on participants in antiwar picket in Izhevsk

On February 23, after anarchists, antimilitarists and activists of the Ataka (Attack) movement had held an unauthorized picket against the war in Chechnya, some 30 people of the local branch of the Fascist organization Party of Freedom attacked them.

17:31, 25 February 2004

US journalist's assistant detained in Chechnya

According to Rebecca Santana, Ruslan Sopakhanov, a resident of the Chechen Republic, worked with her for four days as a driver helping her collect information.

16:55, 25 February 2004

Over 200 people in Prague stage rally for peace in Chechnya

On February 23, the anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingushetians to Central Asia and West Siberia in 1944, a rally was held at Namesti Miru Square in Prague.

16:39, 25 February 2004

Georgian Prosecutor General's Office opens investigation into 21 February incident at Omega Group company

The prosecutor has not yet specified details of the investigation, except saying that members of special forces who presented in the Omega Group office at the time of the incident have already been interrogated.

15:51, 25 February 2004

Number of Russian asylum seekers in Europe rose by 73% in 2003

Russians - mostly Chechens - were easily the top asylum-seeking nationality in 2003, with a total of 33,400 (data from 29 rather than the full 36 industrialized countries), announced the UN refugee agency.

15:17, 25 February 2004

Olivier Dupuis stops hunger strike

Today, February 25, a press conference of Olivier Dupuis, the Radical Member of the European Parliament, is to be held at the conference hall of the European Parliament.

14:54, 25 February 2004

Congress of Meskhetian Turks in Baku

Congress participants appealed to the Georgian leadership and international organizations to provide the return of Meskhetian Turks to their native lands in Meskhetia, Georgia.

14:53, 25 February 2004

International Helsinki Federation condemns break-up of meeting in Moscow to oppose armed conflict in Chechnya

"There is no legal basis for either prohibiting this peaceful meeting or for breaking it up," stated Dr. Rhodes, Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation (IHF).

13:26, 25 February 2004

Human Rights Watch: White House needs to raise rights concerns during Saakashvili's visit

High-level official statements promising and praising the harshest methods to fight corruption may encourage violations of human rights, Human Rights Watch said.

23:32, 24 February 2004

Internews invites advertisers to work with regional television companies

"Out of thirteen independent broadcasters currently working in Azerbaijan, nine operate in the regions," said Whit Mason, Internews' Country Director in Azerbaijan.

23:19, 24 February 2004

Opposition in Kalmykia arranges march to Moscow

The Executive Committee of the Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia, founded in January 2003 to remove Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from the Kalmyk presidency, intends to arrange a march to Moscow at the end of February.

23:08, 24 February 2004

Frodo NGO takes baton from outlawed School of Peace

The Krasnodar Regional Court has denied the appeal by the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace" against the decision of a district court on the liquidation of the Fund.

22:29, 24 February 2004

Office of party in opposition to Abashidze burnt in Batumi, party's leader beaten

Unknown people set fire to the regional office of the Christian Democratic Party in the capital of Adjaria, Batumi, on February 22.

20:47, 24 February 2004

Valery Yevnevich: CIS peacekeeping contingent is force capable of providing peace in CIS countries

The general was quoted as saying "only the presence of the CIS PKF (Peacekeeping Forces) in conflict areas can guarantee security for civilians and facilitate the process of peaceful adjustment between conflict parties."

20:28, 24 February 2004

Survey: should Russian authorities apologize for 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians?

Altogether 3,851 phone calls were received by Echo Moskvy Radio for 5 minutes of the survey.

14:49, 24 February 2004

Shevarnadze received no guarantees on his family's immunity

Paata Shevarnadze, a son of the Georgian ex-president, denied a number of mass media reports stating that Eduard Shevarnadze received guarantees on his family immunity upon his retirement. He also stated that the Shevarnadze family was a victim to political persecution on behalf of the current authorities.

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